Thre great coach's in our great state

[Adam Gamradt]

if I wanted, I can even teach at one of these schools without a "license"

WHAT!?!?!?! next thing you know, the UMN will allow Adam G to be a professor...




Tim Roche
Eastview Lacrosse

But I already bought the corduroy blazer!

[scooter]

However, we are getting off topic a bit. Did anyone on this board actually get the state certification through their college? I would be interested to know how difficult it was at other schools than SJU.

NIU offers a teacher certificate program which is fairly "easy" in my opinion. Basically, you need a 2.5 gpa at your undergrad school in whatever you want to teach, but what you want to teach can be fairly liberal. In Illinois, a Business degree and a few english/philosophy classes can qualify you to teach pretty much anything at the HS level. To get the actual certificate is 35hrs, i want to say, with a semester of student teaching afterwards.

Apparently, majoring in education in Illinois is like jumping through hoops for 4.5 years, so majoring in whatever you want and getting a certificate in teaching a year later seems like the more worthwhile situation to me

Also, in Illinois, anyone with a Bachelor's degree is qualified to teach at private institutions. While each individual school has there own requirement I'm sure, any college grad probably has a shot at teaching at some elementary parochial school if they so desired.

[schelitzche]

I have my state teaching certification for secondary social studies through UMD. I also took most of the coaching classes but did not finish the minor. I will tell you that I found it to be kind of a joke when I was told that once I was hired as a head lacrosse coach, I would need to attend the "weekend coaching certification classes" to be certified. This was funny since the coaching minor in college was around 20 credits at $400 a piece.

On the hiring employees to non-employees side of things, I might sound creepy here but bare with me for a minute. The Star Tribune quoted a guy who said the state really went backward when they stopped licensing coaches. I think they probably mean getting coaches certification and training and not teaching licences and here is why, and here is where it gets creepy. If a college student, man or women, was indeed someone who was a predator, pedophile, whatever, what would be their obvious choice for a profession? For those who are not teachers and want to coach, I would assume more of them are doing it because 1) they love the sport 2) they love to coach or 3) they are filling a spot that no one else is willing to fill, not because they want to hang out with kids all day.

Just my two cents.
Schlitz